The Mediterranean in 1920
This map shows the 34 states and peoples the data has for The Mediterranean in that year.
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States and peoples in the Mediterranean in 1920
Largest first, by area on this map.
- French Africa
- Republics of the Soviet Union
- Ottoman Empire
- French Third Republic
- Italian Africa
- Kingdom of Spain
- British Africa
- Kingdom of Romania
- Kingdom of Italy
- Yugoslavia
- First Hellenic Republic
- French Mandate for Syria and Lebanon
- Emirate of Jabal Shammar
- British Colonial Empire
- Czechoslovakia
- Weimar Republic
- Principality of Bulgaria
- Hungarian Republic
- Republic of Austria
- Portuguese Republic
- Kingdom of Hejaz
- Second Polish Republic
- Georgia
- Swiss Confederation
- Albania
- Kingdom of Great Britain
- Qajar Dynasty
- Emirate of Nejd
- Kingdom of Belgium
- Luxembourg
- United States of America
- Tangier International Zone
- Principality of Andorra
- Kingdom of Monaco
New on the map since 1895
Republics of the Soviet Union · Italian Africa · Kingdom of Romania · Yugoslavia · French Mandate for Syria and Lebanon · British Colonial Empire · Czechoslovakia · Weimar Republic · Hungarian Republic · Republic of Austria · Portuguese Republic · Kingdom of Hejaz · Second Polish Republic · Georgia · Albania · Qajar Dynasty · United States of America · Tangier International Zone
Gone from the map by 1945
Republics of the Soviet Union · Ottoman Empire · French Third Republic · Italian Africa · Kingdom of Spain · Kingdom of Romania · First Hellenic Republic · Emirate of Jabal Shammar · British Colonial Empire · Czechoslovakia · Weimar Republic · Principality of Bulgaria · Hungarian Republic · Republic of Austria · Portuguese Republic · Kingdom of Hejaz · Second Polish Republic · Georgia · Qajar Dynasty · Emirate of Nejd · Kingdom of Monaco
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The Mediterranean in other years
Other regions in 1920
The outlines are coarse and follow the Cliopatria dataset: borders before modern surveys are estimates, and a blank area means the data has no state on record there, not that nobody lived there. A state that changed hands during the year can appear together with its successor.